Bilateral greater occipital nerve block for post‐dural puncture headache

rhythms (for example, by temporary transcutaneous pacing, magnet). • The often-given recommendation of application of the ‘current in a fashion that it will not cross the generator ⁄ lead ⁄ chest system’ might be of less relevance than currently thought. In our case, repositioning the return electrode away from the apex of the heart did not result in any change of the current necessary to transiently inhibit the pacemaker.

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